Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 50% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1906 on, and the census since 1850.
Tecumseh Township dates its founding to 1824 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1850.
More historic than 50% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tecumseh Township is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
Few Michigan towns list much on the Register (a typical Michigan town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Tecumseh Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (32% of Michigan towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tecumseh Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tecumseh Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Tecumseh Township.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveTecumseh panorama
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveCamelback bridge over Raisin River near
In the archiveMills BlockFrom Wikipedia’s history of Tecumseh Township.
The boundaries of Lenawee County were laid out by a proclamation of the Territorial Governor, Lewis Cass, on September 10, 1822. Lenawee remained attached to Monroe County, out of which it was formed, until an act of the Territorial Legislature passed on December 26, 1826, organized the county government.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
3 decades in the archive, from the 1860s to the 1980s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2012Peacock on Allen Road Tecumseh Township Michigan 2
2012Peacock on Allen Road Tecumseh Township Michigan 1
2012Notice of Divine Supremacy, North Adrian Highway
2012First Baptist Church
2012First Baptist Church Tecumseh Michigan 2
2012"Three Old Furnace Fellas" Sculpture, Downtown
2011VFW Hall-Slater Post 4187, 427 North Evans Street
2011U.S. Post Office, 320 East Chicago Boulevard
2011Tecumseh Welcome Sign, East Chicago Boulevard
2011Tecumseh Middle School
2011Tecumseh Community Center, 703 East Chicago Boulevard
2011Tecumseh City Hall, 309 East Chicago Boulevard
2011Tecumseh Center for the Arts, 400 North Maumee Street
2011Riverbend Friends Church, 9500 Tecumseh Clinton Highw…
2011Red Millpond on River Raisin, Tecumseh Dam, North Eva…
2011Red Millpond River Raisin
2011Meyer's-Divers Airport runway
2011La Plaisance Bay Pike historical marker
2011Herrick Medical Center
2011Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, 302 North Maumee S…
2011Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 108 Brown Street
2011Entrance to Tecumseh Trade Center ^ Flea Market, 9129…
2011Douglas W. Bird Kiwanis Memorial Park, North Maumee S…
2011Dilapidated House, Tecumseh-Clinton Highway at Allen …
2011David S. Hickman Financial Center, 205 East Chicago B…
2010William Hayden House MI
2010Samuel Temple House
2010Samuel Catlin House
2010Musgrove Evans House
2010G P Sparks HouseNo then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tecumseh Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Grew from 1,670 people in 1850 to 8,680 in 2020, 5 times over.
18 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Tecumseh Township’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1824, according to Wikidata. the census of 1850 counted 1,670 people here.
Tecumseh Township is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
10% of Tecumseh Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.6 points), against a typical 12% for a Michigan town; the median home was built in 1981.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (33), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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